Windows Forms Localization

If you are an experienced Windows Forms developer, maybe you already faced the localization problem with this technology. There are different ways for localizing a Windows Forms application, but basically all of them rely on managed resources. The easiest way for localizing a Windows Forms application is to take advantage of the Visual Studio Designer so that the IDE generates the appropriate resources files for you. An example is of course the best way for providing explanations; the goal of this an example is to localize a Windows Forms application in both English and Italian. Run Visual Studio 2010, create a new Windows Forms project with Visual Basic 2010, and name it WindowsFormsLocalization. Follow these steps: ...

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